“I fled the headless darts of slanderous tongue.”
Anacreon (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns
Odes, XLII. (XL.), 11.
“Done to death by slanderous tongue”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert to Eliza
James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
The Judgment of Paris (1765), stanza 109.
“Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung,
Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" preface to Thomas Parnell's Poems on Several Occasions (1721).
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variant: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
